楚chǔ

Modern simplified form (簡體). 楚 (chǔ) is identical in simplified and traditional — a phonosemantic compound of 'forest' (林) and 'foot' (疋), originally picturing a foot stepping on a thorn, signifying 'to tread' and later 'clear' or 'neat'. It gives the sound in words like 清楚 (clear) and 楚国 (the state of Chu).